For those who use Chrome there is no explanation needed, but I will give one anyway for the laggards (I kid, I kid). Starting with the style chrome was designed to have more of a friendly round design that was so different from Internet Explorer, an extremely traditional browser (until their more recent face lift). Chrome’s move to have everything inside one search bar (search engine and address bar combined), was a huge increase in productivity, because now “searching” became the first step in the process. Instead of with the past where toolbars or other extensions were installed.

The number one reason why I enjoy Chrome is extensions. Allowing users to create tools that help increase productivity with the browser was a crucial move that has helped them become #1.

So now for the fun part! Here are the top 10 extensions that you should not live without:

Bit.ly: Expand bitly links (and many other short links) on any web page to see page titles and links to bitly Info pages before clicking.

Rapportive: This is probably the best one of them all, but I use Bit.ly more so it is first.

BufferApp: Easily add great articles, pictures and videos to your Buffer and we automagically share them for you through the day!